Curb Your Enthusiasm

Nancy Pelosi warned Republicans that their enthusiastic protests against ObamaCare might incite violence  (Article). Pelosi also cautioned that Republican leaders should be held responsible if violence does occur (Watch the Video of Pelosi’s Comments). Citing the City Hall murder of gay rights activist Harvey Milk as an example, Pelosi suggested we should, “All curb our enthusiasm in some of the statements and understand that some of the ears that it is falling on are not as balanced as the person making the statements may assume.” Yet another double standard from our esteemed speaker. “This didn’t exist when she and her fellow Democrats repeatedly referred to George W. Bush as a liar…or when they organized one protest after another calling [GWB] a baby killer or a Nazi,” Sean said.

Nancy Pelosi Has It All Wrong:

“Enthusiastic” protests against ObamaCare might incite violence has never been an issue for the millions of conservatives protesting against ObamaCare. Their goal is keep the government out of health care and give the American people the choice of deciding for themselves the type of coverage they want…not President Obama deciding for them. They just don’t seem to get the fact that we do not want government-run health care.

Violence may occur under some circumstances but it will be from radicals not the majority of the American people keeping their right to freedom alive. Pelosi doesn’t seem to understand that our right to freedom of speech was given to the people in the Constitution. It is a right and privilege to state our opinions and work against corruption and liberals who do not  have the best interests of the nation at heart.

Republican Leaders will be held responsible if violence does occur??? What does Pelosi expect the Republican party to do? They have no control over a nation of people. They cannot dictate to us what we can and cannot protest against. Does Pelosi really believe that this “dire” warning will affect the American people’s desire and commitment to ensure our freedoms? What is it that frightens them so much? According to most of the mainstream media, we are just a bunch of rebel rousers, maybe some disgruntled seniors, and a few radicals. They just don’t seem to get the fact that this protest against ObamaCare is ordinary people from all walks of life and social status. Some are young – middle aged – and seniors. Some are Democrats and some are Republicans. Some have no affiliation. It is Americans speaking up and out about government-run health care.

The attacks against President George W. Bush by the Democrats seems to be all but forgotten. Seems they didn’t realize their remarks used to describe our president might be falling on ears not as balanced as the person making the statements. Strange how that works just one way. Hmmmm!

Peolsi has it wrong as do much of the media and the government. The opposition is not finished…it has just begun. It will continue until our elected leaders listen and act upon the wants and wishes of the those who elected them.

FAR Editor

“Sigh.Yet another hectoring on why we should want to dismantle American medicine and pay more to do so from the POTUS on the TOTUS.  Breathless reports from CNN about Olympia Snowe’s willingness to deal aside, the White House looks desperate at this point, and with public opinion turning as rapidly as it has against Obamacare, that desperation is understandable. People warned the president about overexposure, and now he’s already in reruns eight months into his presidency.  Obamafatigue has set in, and ham-handed stunts like addressing the nation’s school children only add to the woes of a White House stuck with a thinly-disguised push to single payer built on the rationing of medical services to seniors.  The only question of interest now is how many Democratic incumbents are willing to lose their seats in service to President Obama.  Pushing through any “reform” at this point could cost Democrats massively in November, 2010.  I suppose there are a few Alinskyites who don’t mind being retired in order to advance the president’s agenda. Enough to pass Obamacare though?”

Hugh Hewitt

The President’s Speech To Congress:

If He Doesn’t Demand Serious Tort Reform He Isn’t Serious About Health Care Reform

Rasmeussen Report – Saturday, August 15, 2009

Thirty-five percent (35%) of American voters say passage of the bill currently working its way through Congress would be better than not passing any health care reform legislation this year. However, a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that most voters (54%) say no health care reform passed by Congress this year would be the better option.

(To read the rest of the story, click on the above link.)

Where will that leave us? Under the care of over-worked physicians that can’t afford to retire, they’re too young, or maybe they even support health care reform??? Where will new doctors come from? Who will even want to enter the field of medicine if they are under a “dictatorship?” Who would want to study that many years and then work under a government run health care system? Which patients would they be allowed to treat? How would they handle turning away those patients that are elderly or disabled? What about patients not deemed important enough to receive treatment? Doctors and would-be doctors would be faced with both legal and ethical questions.

I can’t even begin to imagine the struggles the doctors and patients would be subjected to.

On Friday’s Rush Limbaugh Show, a physician called in and shared his thoughts on the new Health Care bill.

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT- From Rush Limbaugh’s Show – August 28, 2009

A Version of Obamacare Will Pass

RUSH: In Philadelphia.  Richard, welcome to the EIB Network, sir.  Hello.

CALLER: Hi.  Good afternoon.  I’m a physician in Philadelphia, and when I read that story by Betsy McCaughey in the Wall Street Journal yesterday — I’m so glad that you brought it up — it actually made me physically ill.  As a physician reading that, I think of the Hippocratic Oath.  I mean, how can you look a patient and the family in the eye and say, “You’re outta luck because some mad scientist, Ezekiel Emanuel, is telling them you’re not worth it.”

RUSH: Let me explain to the audience that may not have heard this yesterday what it was that made you physically ill.  Ezekiel Emanuel…. There’s a story written by Betsy McCaughey in the Wall Street Journal, a column, and Ezekiel Emanuel is the number one health care advisor to President Obama. He’s the brother of Rahm Emanuel, the ballerina, who is the chief of staff.  Ezekiel Emanuel said the big problem with medicine is the Hippocratic Oath, that doctors are too focused on doing everything for the patient.  Doctors have to be more focused on the good of society and make decisions as to, “Hey, it’s not worth treating this patient.  We got three 70 year olds and the resources might be better spent on a 16-year-old who’s sick, who’s got a longer life.”  So the whole notion here that there aren’t any death panels? The lead advocate for Obamacare is thinking things like this and has written about them. And that’s what Richard in Philadelphia here, a doctor, is upset about.

(For the rest of the story, click on the above link.)

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